Frequent post-patch crashes/reboots from game

[swiss]

Please get a decent one(~$120+), not some cheap crap.

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by swiss

Please get a decent one(~$120+), not some cheap crap.

Well, the ones I was looking at were mostly Antec 850s and 1000s and were about €150-250!!!

They still only had 25A max. @ 12V.

R

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by Russkly

Well, the ones I was looking at were mostly Antec 850s and 1000s and were about €150-250!!!

They still only had 25A max. @ 12V.

R

OK, now I understand:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r220...0A-on-12V-Rail

So, my Atrix 600T @ 720W, which seems to be cheap, old and fairly crap gives this:

+3.3V +5V +12V +12V -12V +5VSB
35A 40A 15A 17A 0.5A 2.5A

(Sorry about the formatting)

...which is 32A on the 12V rail - not enough according to the GPU spec, which wants 40A.

Especially with the CPU o/c'd from 2.67 to 3.25, plus 2xSSD and 2x1Tb HDD in RAID, plus a CoolerMaster heatsink for the o/c'd CPU.

Still surprised that I've not experienced this problem with other games though.

Hope this sheds some light - check your 12V rail, boys!

R

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Russkly

Well, the ones I was looking at were mostly Antec 850s and 1000s and were about €150-250!!!

They still only had 25A max. @ 12V.

R

Superflower, Corsair, Enermax, ("Be quiet", hard to get in the US)

[baffa]

I had to rearrange some fans and increase the rpm in my case to get rid of the excessive heat. My mainboard was at 70C, never seen that before
The only thing that had ok temps was my GPU even if it was pegged at 100% most of the time.

Everything is better now though, at least within teh limits.

I can recommend Corsair TX 650W PSU, 52A on +12V, more than enough for any single GPU setup.

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by baffa

I had to rearrange some fans and increase the rpm in my case to get rid of the excessive heat. My mainboard was at 70C, never seen that before
The only thing that had ok temps was my GPU even if it was pegged at 100% most of the time.

Everything is better now though, at least within teh limits.

I can recommend Corsair TX 650W PSU, 52A on +12V, more than enough for any single GPU setup.

So increased cooling helped the reboots?

So perhaps it's not the GPU overloading the PSU but the fans or the CPU heatsink I put in recently when o/c'ing the chip?

Either way, it seems the PSU cannot cope.

I'm looking at PSUs now, but I live in Spain and tend to use one shop for components, and they have Antec's (usually 4 x 12V rails @ about 20-25A each, which should do the trick, shouldn't it?).

Would prefer single rail like you have, but it's an availability issue.

Thanks again for the advice, baffa.

R